I’ve decided to make a Gratitude list. My plan is to check it often. Its purpose is to remind me to give thanks for my many blessings. I hope this will not be a static list. Given my blog about making a new kind of List, I can’t think of a better time to start.
I’ve tried making these in the past. Several years ago I actually started a “Gratitude Journal,” an idea purported by the mighty Oprah. I did not persevere. Hopefully, this time I shall. Since I am blogging almost every day, keeping it here for easy reference seems appropriate.
So, here are some important things for which I give thanksgiving and hope never to take for granted:
- Surviving cancer
- Being a mother
- Being a wife
- Being a grandmother
- Being a sister
- Being a daughter
- Being a friend
- My husband
- My children
- My grandchildren
- My faith
- My many friends
- My home
- My job
- My ability to learn
- My sight
- My ability to walk and run
- My hearing
- My memory
- The things my mother taught me
- The things my father taught me
- The things my brother taught me (and still does)
- The things my sister taught me (and still does)
- Knowing my grandparents
- The things my grandparents taught me
- Having known Maryann Blinn, who took me to Italy, the birthplace of my grandparents
- Music
- Books
- My freedom
- My intellect
- My free will
- My soul